EWA Download link request....

[psycik]

Hi, is it possible to get the download link run through TinyUrl?

With IE it's hard to get the download link form the button (FF is ok with the copy link location), and so was wondering if there was another way to get the download link to paste to somewhere else.

[psycik]

Any Idea how I'd add the following code as a new download button to EWA.

http://www.emadibrahim.com/2008/04/15/sh...pi-in-net/

I can't find the migrated_library2 class to add it in myself.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Any Idea how I'd add the following code as a new download button to EWA.

http://www.emadibrahim.com/2008/04/15/sh...pi-in-net/

I can't find the migrated_library2 class to add it in myself.

In bed sick again....not the H1N1 thing..... Taking a look now.....

[UncleJohnsBand]

Pop these 4 updated items into your EWA location (stop the recording service first) and see if you are getting what you wanted on the download and play buttons on the Manage.aspx page (only page changed to beta).

It appears to take much longer for the page to load....which is expected....and which will be relative based on the number of items in manage recordings since each download and play link now needs to be posted toTinyURL and the response captured for use in the EWA display.

I had to capture the URI the user is using up-front at login since all links are set as relative but TinyURL needs a fully qualified name to generate a valid URL.

Usage of TinyURL will most likley be a config setting since the longer page load times would be irritating especially if you didn't have a use for the small url.

Try it out and let me know what you think and we can go from there.

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[psycik]

Ok, thats an interesting way of doing it. I'll give it a go. In my head i ifigured it was problably easier to add a new button with the d/l like on there, and the url being copied to clipboard or something like that.

That would get around the long page generation times I imagine, since only the one you wanted would be converted to tinyurl.

I'll give this a go any way, mostly I want it as the long url can get truncated etc when posting it to someone so they can download something off me so it's normally the library. And I found posting the link to tinyurl didn't always work at there were some special characters in there or something that wouldn't convert right..

[psycik]

Wow, you're right about that load time.....with about 400 recordings mine takes an age to start (a minute or so and still not loaded).

So where to from here. I think hook it to the video library instead of the Manage recordings screen. And if you can, a new button to create the link and do it interactively for the one recording the users wants. I.e. click create link button and get a message screen to popup/send the tiny url to clipboard.

Thoughts?

[UncleJohnsBand]

I'll have to think about it a little bit....unfortunately the on-demand option is more complex than the in-line option since all that processing was already occurring and this was just an additional call.

[psycik]

Given that you've not got the FQDN held somewhere can the download url be used attached to another button with some javascript for copying to clipboard?

[UncleJohnsBand]

I think I have a solution that will give you what you want without me needing to code the process in several places and I won't need to add a new configuration option either.

How about I just add a link in the Details pop-up? It would be a single place code update, no need for an extra button or link appearing on every item and it would be available in Manage and Library.

Thoughts?

[psycik]

Ahh sounds like a good compromise..